“You give your pals the advantage of the doubt. I attempted to take into accounts it relating to, , I’ve had buddies who’ve had compulsions and feature completed issues ― playing or consuming or medicine,” Stewart mentioned right through an look at the “These days” display. “And we’ve misplaced a few of them. A few of them have died.”

Stewart, who has been buddies with Louis C.Ok. for over 30 years, mentioned he hasn’t spoken to the comic for the reason that fallout.

“You all the time in finding your self again to a second of, ‘Did I leave out one thing? May I’ve completed extra?’” he mentioned. “On this scenario, I feel all of us may just’ve. So you’re feeling anger at what you probably did to other folks.”

Stewart famous that the comedy setting hasn’t ever been sort to ladies, in spite of some adjustments through the years.

“The concept there was once this added layer of drive and manipulation and worry and humiliation,” Stewart mentioned earlier than trailing off. “It’s endemic…”

“We’re used to being in price,” he mentioned. “And I feel should you communicate to ladies they’re in an excessively tough place. You get mad at your self, too, for giggling it off or for considering, ‘That didn’t occur.’ And it’s laborious.”

Stewart additionally addressed a video from 2016 that presentations him giggling off allegations in opposition to Louis C.Ok. right through a taping of the David Axelrod’s podcast, “The Axe Files.”

“My first reaction was once, ‘What?’ After which, funny story, funny story, and as he saved going, I used to be like, ‘Glance, I do know that is very critical, however I do know Louis, he’s all the time been a gentleman to me,’” Stewart mentioned. “Which, once more, it speaks to the blindness that I feel a person has.”

A New York Occasions file revealed final week detailed 5 girls’s accounts of unwanted sexual advances from Louis C.Ok. The comic later confirmed in a remark that the tales had been true.

“These stories are true,” he mentioned. “On the time, I mentioned to myself that what I did was once ok as a result of I by no means confirmed a girl my dick with out asking first, which may be true. However what I realized later in existence, too past due, is that if in case you have energy over someone else, asking them to have a look at your dick isn’t a query. It’s a dilemma for them.”